Winner: 2008 Bitterwallet's Worst Company UK

You've cast your votes and followed the polls...you've cheered and jeered at the results...

Now, voting has been officially closed, and that leaves us with one last thing to do.

It's time to award the Bitterwallet 2008 WCUK prize- the lovely golden poo award to adorn one special CEO's desk at... (drumroll please).

Setanta Sports, congratulations! While I've never personally had the pleasure of using your disservices, it appears that quite a few others who have had the pleasure have made sure to see you through the rounds.

Maybe you should pay attention when a tidal wave of disgruntled customers leads to a starring role on BBC Watchdog? Maybe it's time to fix your crappy picture quality, and start responding to cancellation requests instead of ignoring them. What's happened to motto of 'the customer always comes first'?

But that's not all. By virtue of your unwavering complaints and their all-out display of utter customer dissatisfaction, PayPal and eBay get Bitterwallet's 2008's worst comments from disgruntled UK consumers award. Well, let's see how they do this year.

LOL @ Paypalistheworstcompany.
Never ever had a problem with them, users yes, but they sorted it. Can't say there the worst company based on me coming off top dog, but there customer support is crap.
Setanta Sports deserves its place as the best change of excuses ever.

Yep, Setanta truly are on of the worst companies imaginable. I had endless problems with them, particularly when I tried to cancel. Thankfully I had a Direct Debit set up with them, so I eventually cut them off at the source by cancelling it with my bank.
They also, seemingly out of the blue, changed their terms and conditions last year - increasing the cancellation notice to 60 days and upping the monthly subscriptions price by a few quid. They announced this to their subscribers in small text at the bottom of an otherwise completely normal 'monthly Setanta spam' email. A very shady thing to do.
Gah, horrid. They'll never get any of my money again.

Yes the Setanta Customer serivce and cancellation policy were rubbish, they have however since cut cancellation to 30 days and are happy to hold their hand up over picture quality, which is actually due to Sky service engineers purposely orientating dishes to harm setanta pick up.......fact!!!

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